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...Bowl. The place looked like a circus. With The Game as the event under the Big Top, there were many side shows. I saw some Harvard-Yale soccer, bumped into many friends, ate a UC-sponsored hamburger, bought a large load of peanuts and a half pint of Puerto Rican rum made by the company my great-grandfather used...
Certainly Wright was at the center of the action. Last August the Texas Democrat and President Reagan co-sponsored a peace plan for Central America. Two days later in Guatemala City, five of the region's Presidents, including Ortega, signed a different accord, this one championed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. Wright quickly threw his support behind the homegrown pact and invited Arias to address Congress. Since then Wright has repeatedly warned the Reagan Administration that no new funds for military aid to the contras will be approved so long as the peace process remains alive...
...touched down in Mexico City a year ago. Since then he has spent most of his time shuttling around Central America's capitals. Moody reported much of this week's main story, wrote the one-page description of life in war-weary El Salvador and conducted interviews with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, author of the peace plan and winner last month of the Nobel Peace Prize, and with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Said Moody: "Getting in to see the top people makes a major difference in a reporter's ability to understand a complicated story...
...1960s and carved out his own Central American Xanadu, 40 miles south of the Nicaraguan border. The 1,500-acre ranch where he raises cattle and grows oranges is the centerpiece of six properties he owns or manages. Once a week the modern-day feudal baron and his Costa Rican wife Margarita ride out on horseback to check on the 100 workers in their employ. El Patron also enjoys climbing into his blue-and-white Cessna and taking off from one of his half-a-dozen or more airstrips to survey his fiefdom from a God's-eye view...
Crone, a U.S. citizen, testified that Costa Rican officials told him contra suppliers were running drugs, but the fearful witness refused to name names in public. In fact, Crone had pleaded to be allowed to give his testimony in private session. "I may be subject to some harassment from Mr. Hull in Costa Rica for the information I have given you," he explained. When asked outside the hearing room if he believed his life was in danger, Crone replied cryptically, "There have been those who have been killed or disappeared...